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  Vulnerability and impacts assessment for adaptation planning in the Panchase mountain ecological region Nepal

  UNEP Finance Initiative, 2015

  This report is a presentation of the tools and methods of a vulnerability and impacts assessment (VIA) of both climatic and non-climatic changes on ecosystem services and community livelihoods in the Panchase Mountain Ecological Region (PMER) of Nepal, with a focus on interventions for ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA).
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  Flood-induced economic loss and damage to the textile industry in Surat City, India

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2015

  Enhancing a city’s resilience capacity is key for policymakers where there are plans to redevelop cities into ‘climate-smart’ cities. Researchers suggest that this needs a comprehensive city-wide loss and damage assessment for cities in India.
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  Disasters without borders: regional resilience for sustainable development

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2016

  This report offers insights on how to operationalize the process of disaster risk reduction and integration in a way that fosters risk-sensitive development. A critical part of disaster risk management is getting the right information to the right people at the right times.  
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  Responses to weather and climate: A cross-section analysis of rural incomes

  World Bank, 2015

  This paper was commissioned by the World Bank Group’s Climate Change Cross-Cutting Solutions Area and is a background paper for the World Bank Group’s flagship report: “Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty.” It is part of a larger effort by the World Bank to provide open access to its research and make a contribution to development policy discus
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  Cultivating good practice in designing and implementing national monitoring systems for adaptation to climate change

  The Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN), 2015

  How can the monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation best use today's indicators and data systems to get a common understanding of measurable change? This paper examines the benefits of using data well in the context of climate change in order to:
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  SPACC Situation Analysis for Dominica

  Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, 2009

  The purpose of this situational analysis is to assist the deliberations and evaluation to be undertaken by the Forum convened by the Government of Dominica. Prepared with the assistance of local experts, this analysis draws from the management plans of the two National Parks and recent studies.
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  Climate change impacts on agriculture and food security in the Caribbean: A food importation perspective

  Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, 2003

  This report is a sub-component of the Adaptation to Climate Change in the Caribbean (ACCC) project. Its purpose is to determine the extent to which climatic change might alter food production opportunities in countries which have traditionally been major suppliers of food to six selected Caricom countries and thereby alter food security in the region.
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  Vulnerability and Adaptation - A Regional Synthesis of the Vulnerability and Adaptation Component of Caribbean National Communications

  Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, 2002

  A review of the initial national communications of Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Barbados, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Christopher and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago was undertaken focusing on the vulnerability and adaptation component ofthe national communications.
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  Re-framing island nations as champions of resilience in the face of climate change and disaster risk.

  United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, 2015

  This paper is part of a set of working papers that resulted from the Resilience Academy 2013-2014. The United Nations University Institute of Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) publishes these papers as part of its UNU-EHS Working Paper series.
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  World Energy Perspective: The road to resilience − managing and financing extreme weather risks

  World Energy Council, 2015

  A call to action from the World Energy Council in partnership with Swiss Re Corporate Solutions and Marsh & McLennan Companies, for collaboration to ensure secure and reliable energy supply, as the backbone of the global economy.

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